John Toland. Adolf Hitler. 1976. This biography contains forged poetry written 'by Hitler'. Toland was not a cheater, he was simply too naive and believed in the stories and material feeded to him by several forgerer and con men.

Sherree Owens Zalampas. Adolf Hitler: A psychological Interpretation of His Views on Architecture Art and Music. Bowling Green State University Popular press, 1990.
Achterflap: ”The purpose of this study was to apply the psychological model of Alfred Adler to Adolf Hitler trought the examination of his views of architecture, art and music. This study only recentlywas made possible by the publication of Billy F. Price’s volume of over seven hundred of Adolf Hitler’s watercolors, oils and sketches.”

The NIOD should never have issued a press release with a 'preliminary' conclusion about the authenticity of the watercolor attributed to Adolf Hitler.

After we expressed our serious doubts, the NIOD hid behind the words 'for now' and 'almost certainly'. The NIOD should have realized that:

a. 'almost certainly' means that there is little or no doubt. Also expressing "the feeling to possess a real Hitler" does not indicate reservations.b. in the expected media storm all reservations would disappear. Exactly that happened, and still happens:

At the NIOD, all alarm bells should have been gone off whilst receiving and and studying the watercolor attributed to Hitler.

2.1 The origin story is completely unclear.2.2 The story of the offerer rattles.2.3. The existence of forged 'Hitlers'.2.4. Prof. Dr. August Priesack.2.5. The book by Billy F. Price.2.6. The seal of the 'Exekutionsgericht Wien'.

Six clear alarm bells, all were ignored. As a result, the 'months-long authentication process' was built on quicksand: the assumption that it was an' authentic 'Hitler' was leading and ensured tunnel vision.

This tunnel vision caused also that NIOD did not investigate the blue Morgenstern seal. If the NIOD had submitted a photograph of that seal to the Viennese researchers who had examined the Exekutionsgericht seal, they would have noticed that there is something fundamentally wrong with that seal. In other words: alarm bell number seven.

The most logical investigation - excluding that the work is a forgery - did not take place.

3. NIOD should have known that the authenticity can never be substantiated

As far as we know only one scientific authenticity investigation of alleged Hitler paintings ever took place. That happened in Munich, autumn 2013. Art historians and forensic experts examined a number of alleged Hitler paintings. After a few weeks of thorough research, it was concluded that the authenticity could not be established, so the works had to be labeled as forgeries.

That is the only correct scientific conclusion after such a research, not that it is 'almost certainly' real.

After we presented our criticism of the NIOD-resaearch to the NIOD, and wrote that further research at the NIOD-watercolor would be useless, since it would never be possible to proof that the NIOD-aquarel is a real Hitler, NIOD director Frank van Vree replied on December 4, 2017 this:

"Contrary to what you suggest, it certainly seems worthwhile to continue the investigation, even if that would lead to the conclusion that it is a forgery, or that its authenticity is impossible to determine.

We are setting up a project group that will look at how we can proceed systematically in Phase II and what (external) expertise we need for this - without having to spend real money now. That does not seem necessary either, given the network of friendly institutions with the necessary expertise. For that reason the project wil take some time. I think it would be a good thing if we ask you in the future for some critical comments."

On the contrary: basic and solid research has already pointed out that the NIOD aquarel is very probable a forgery.

Further research into the painting is therefore in an exercise in futility, which will cost a lot of time and real money - even though Van Vree claims the opposite.

The necessary expertise in the field of authenticity research of artwork is missing at all 'friendly institutions' of the NIOD and at the NIOD itself. Holocaust research is is something completely else than the technical research of a watercolor.

Published in English under the title Adolf Hitler. The unknown artist. Billy F. Price Publishing House, Houston, 1984.

Herman Weiss (1932-2015), researcher at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (the German sister organization of the NIOD), wrote in an authentication investigation of alleged Hitlers in 1984 (!) about this book:

"This catalog (...) not only contains the Hitler counterfeits of Konrad Kujau, which have meanwhile become known, but can also only be used after critical scrutiny of the information provided because of its further inaccuracies and errors."

The German-Austrian historian Brigitte Hamann (1940-2016) reported in her book Hitlers Wien (1996; English edition titled Hitler's Vienna, 1999) that Price's book also contains many forgeries by Reinhold Hanisch.

The American historian Frederic Spotts (1930) stated in his book Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics (2002) that the book of Prive consists for two-thirds of forgeries.

Price's co-authors Peter Jahn and August Priesack have been known for many years as authentication certificate swindlers. They issued certficates of authenticity to clearly forged 'Hitlers'.

All this was unknown at the NIOD. How could that happen?

And how could it happen that the responsible NIOD researcher, whilst being in Washington D.C. to present the NIOD preliminary 'research' result, did not visit the U.S. Army's Center of Military History to study the four authentic 'Hitlers' which are stored there?

1. It would be advisable for the Institute to rectify the premature press release. Worldwide.

2. NIOD should investigate how and why this canard happened, in order to prevent similar blunders in the future.

3. NIOD should reserve one bookcase in the Institute's library for all books that should definitely not be used as a source for future research.

There's no need to destroy these books. They are very suited for research into the forgery circuit that revolves around Nazi artifacts, whether or not allegedly 'wrong' authors and theories based on nothing.

John Toland. Adolf Hitler. 1976. This biography contains forged poetry by Hitler. Toland was not a cheater, he was simply too naive and believed in the stories and material feeded to him by several forgers and con men.

Sherree Owens Zalampas. Adolf Hitler: A psychological Interpretation of His Views on Architecture Art and Music. Bowling Green State University Popular press, 1990.
Achterflap: ”The purpose of this study was to apply the psychological model of Alfred Adler to Adolf Hitler trought the examination of his views of architecture, art and music. This study only recentlywas made possible by the publication of Billy F. Price’s volume of over seven hundred of Adolf Hitler’s watercolors, oils and sketches.”